E10/11 Sept 10 Class notes

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Al

Good morning.

 

Good morning, everyone.

We’ll get started at 8:30.

 

Today’s agenda

1.   Email protocol – review- name, class, time, topic

attachment

-Can you see my comments? If yes, great. If no, that is a problem.

My comment was “Thanks”

- Read my feedback notes online: https://onlinedocumentviewer.com/Viewer/document.aspx

This will go on the blog.

More meaningful title of document

 

2.   Review of sentences

 

3.   Homework       Read the CBC article that I emailed you this morning.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/back-to-school-sept-10-1.5717574

Test #1: Paragraph to pass in tomorrow.

 

 

Yesterday’s homeworks – bio

sent by email

 

-opened it , put a comment on it

 

Hopefully, everyone can see my comments.

 

Email protocol: Subject Line: Name, Class, Time, Test

Give your document a meaningful name: Name, Class, Time, Test

 

 

Main lesson for today:

Review of sentences:

 

sentence writing: good sentences, top priority, so important that we can write excellent sentences, consistently, reliably, for me - basis of my life- school, college, university, personal life, business life, professionally, career, teaching

 

based on good writing – sentences!!!

 

Three kinds of sentences – have to master, know them inside and out

 

SIMPLE SENTENCES – most basic kind of sentence

one independent (main) clause – subject and verb, has a meaning by itself, complete meaning

SV It is sunny and warm today. S+V

SSV Vancouver and Victoria are nice cities to visit in the summer.

SVV The kids play basketball and run laps in the park.

SSSV My sister, my daughter, and I all like to read.

 

S + V – SIMPLE

 

imperative sentence – command sentence, tell someone to do something

(You) Go to bed. -we don’t say ‘you’, implied, implied subject

Close the door. no ‘you’   You close the door. – sounds rude and aggressive

 

here/there

Here is my house. SV ‘here’ is not the subject

There are your keys.

 

Feel free to write an example in the Chat box to share. Try one to share.

Your examples:

1.   My mother is a wonderful person.

2.   Hunting is the teacher’s hobby. capital letter H

3.   I watched a movie yesterday.

4.   Our teacher is good at teaching.

5.   The wifi often works really bad poorly. punc

6.   My wife and I often play basketball.

7.   He ate his dinner. punc

8.   Mae likes to eat strawberries.

9.   My dog likes to play in the park. punc

SV

SSV

SVV X

here/there X

imperative X

10.                     my sister studies engineering cap, punc My sister studies engineering.

11.                     Give me a some money. imperative ‘money’ is noncount

 

countable/ uncountable nouns-

countable – use a number – dog, pencil, pork chops -2,3,4

uncountable -can’t use a number, use an amount – water, money, happiness – some, a lot, two gallons

 

12.                     here is where I live  Here is where I live. cap, punc

13.                     Here comes the bus.

 

 

COMPOUND SENTENCES – two main clauses put together

SV   +   SV

My mother is a wonderful person. My father is a terrible man. 2 SIMPLES

 

put these together into a compound sentence

FANBOYS 7 coordinating conjunctions

for and nor but or yet so – not good advice, not all are commonly used

 

for not used for compound sentences by English speakers, formal-sounding, stodgy

She is wearing sunglasses, for it is bright outside. UNUSUAL

She is wearing sunglasses because it is bright outside. COMPLEX SENT

 

I have a gift for you. Okay. simple sentence, very common, different usage of ‘for’

 

nor

She does not speak French, nor does she speak German. very unusual, not authentic sounding

She doesn’t speak French or German. authentic

She does not speak French nor German. Grammatically it is fine. Sounds old-fashioned, stodgy

 

You have to decide how you want to sound in English – casual, very formal, like a dictionary, like a grammar book?

I will teach you a level that is good for everyday and also for school and business.

 

yet

It is September 10^th, yet it is still hot in the days.

It is September 10^th, but it is still hot in the days. sounds more authentic

Even though it is September 10^th, it is still hot in the days. COMPLEX SENTENCE

 

FANBOYS – so or but and – most useful

SOBA- so or but and

 

Examples:

My wife is working late tonight, so I have to drive my son to soccer.

We can park in front of the building for two hours, or we can go to a parking lot.

I love to go camping, but I don’t like the mosquitoes.

Michelle plays piano, and Shelley plays flute.

 

HOMEWORK: Review simple and compound sentences. Try a few of your own. We can share them tomorrow. Look it up online. Find out about it. Struggle with it. Do the work that is needed.

Read the CBC article. We will write a general opinion paragraph about this topic tomorrow.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

COMPLEX SENTENCES